[MPlayer-users] Best mac / windows format?

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Jul 27, 2006, at 03.03, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> Nico Sabbi escribe:
>> this will generate an avi with a .mpg extension; moreover the  
>> encoding
>> options are very basic,
>> so quality will probably suck until you fine-tune them; in every case
>> the most widespread
>> format is mpeg1, not mpeg2
>
> Also it must be kept in mind that Windows media players don't have
> MPEG-2 enabled by default and that usually a commercial DVD player is
> to be installed so codecs for this format are available.
>
> Windows Media Player is able to play very few formats without the need
> of downloading new codecs or DirectX filters.

Well, if they didn't do that, what incentive would people have for  
using WMV instead of DivX/XviD/MPEG-4/H.264? ;)

> For maximum default compatability I'd go for an Indeo codec if this is
> available on Quicktime.

Actually, Apple dropped support for Indeo with QuickTime 6, I think.  
I KNOW it's not in QuickTime 7. However, the Classic (OS 9) version  
of QuickTime *does* contain Indeo, but it's highly unlikely you'll  
ever see anyone using that QuickTime plug-in with their browser  
(unless they're using an old Netscape Navigator too)

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